Download or read book The Explorer s Guide to the Abbeys Monasteries and Churches of Great Britain written by Frank Bottomley and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Abbey Explorer s Guide written by Frank Bottomley and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Surveying Historic Buildings written by David Watt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling book has been fully revised and updated to include valuable new case studies and examples which help to demonstrate the common problems found in older buildings. It features many additional photographs illustrating the decay mechanims and individual issues associated with damp, timber decay, masonry defects, roofing problems and many other aspects. The book begins by summarizing the basics of surveying practice, including the inspection, assessment, defect diagnosis and monitoring of defects. It then examines the building elements, discussing their construction, typical faults and their diagnoses. This section provides specific advice on assessing industrial monuments and features concise inspection checklists for ease of reference. In the final section, the author looks to the future, considering the specific challenges faced by property professionals when employed to survey historic buildings. The book is accompanied by comprehensive appendices, including sample survey forms, and a list of useful contacts is followed by an extensive bibliography. This book will be of particular interest to conservation officers, surveyors, architects, archaeologists and planners.

Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 3246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Download or read book The Autobiography of Henry VIII written by Margaret George and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of Henry VIII is the magnificent historical novel that established Margaret George's career. Evocatively written in the first person as Henry VIII's private journals, the novel was the product of fifteen years of meticulous research and five handwritten drafts. Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the Church because it would not grant him the divorce he wanted; who married six women and beheaded two of them; who executed his friend Thomas More; who sacked the monasteries; who longed for a son and neglected his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth; who finally grew fat, disease-ridden, dissolute. Now, in her magnificent work of storytelling and imagination Margaret George bring us Henry VIII's story as he himself might have told it, in memoirs interspersed with irreverent comments from his jester and confident, Will Somers. Brilliantly combining history, wit, dramatic narrative, and an extraordinary grasp of the pleasures and perils of power, this monumental novel shows us Henry the man more vividly than he has ever been seen before.

Download or read book The Companion to Cathedrals Abbeys written by Stephen Friar and published by History Press Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in this predominantly secular age, Britain's cathedrals remain potent symbols of religious continuity. Their purpose was to reveal God's majesty, to declare the supremacy of the Church and the devotion of the men who built them. They were intended, literally, to be awesome. Similarly, our medieval abbeys, most of them sad remnants of a glorious past, serve to remind us of the dedication of those who aspired to the monastic ideal. No two cathedrals or abbeys are alike in their conception, location, construction or history, and it is this that gives them their limitless appeal. This comprehensive volume contains over 1,450 entries arranged alphabetically, together with lists of useful addresses and further reading, and is richly illustrated with color and black and white photographs, plans and drawings. A wealth of subjects including architecture, liturgy, history and monasticism are covered in detail and assist in placing research in a wider historical context. Newcomers to the study of abbeys and cathedrals as well as experienced researchers will find Stephen Friar's companion essential reading.

Download or read book Great Britain and Ireland a Phaidon Cultural Guide written by and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1985 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dissolution of the Monasteries written by James G. Clark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first account of the dissolution of the monasteries for fifty years--exploring its profound impact on the people of Tudor England "This is a book about people, though, not ideas, and as a detailed account of an extraordinary human drama with a cast of thousands, it is an exceptional piece of historical writing."--Lucy Wooding, Times Literary Supplement Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and artistic expression and even the creation of regional and national identity. Their closure, carried out in just four years between 1536 and 1540, caused a dislocation of people and a disruption of life not seen in England since the Norman Conquest. Drawing on the records of national and regional archives as well as archaeological remains, James Clark explores the little-known lives of the last men and women who lived in England's monasteries before the Reformation. Clark challenges received wisdom, showing that buildings were not immediately demolished and Henry VIII's subjects were so attached to the religious houses that they kept fixtures and fittings as souvenirs. This rich, vivid history brings back into focus the prominent place of abbeys, priories, and friaries in the lives of the English people.

Download or read book England s Chronicle in Stone written by James Frothingham Hunnewell and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture written by Meredith P. Lillich and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Monastic Gatehouse and Other Types of Portal of Medieval Religious Houses written by Roland William Morant and published by Brecourt Academic. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gazetteer of all surviving monastic gatehouses in Britain, including fragmentary remains. Morant also discusses the architectural components of the gatehouse and investigates their position, structure and function.

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Download or read book Cambridgeshire Churches written by Carola Hicks and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book England written by Alan Edwin Day and published by Oxford, England : Clio Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Merevale Church and Abbey written by John D. Austin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merevale Church, which is the Gate Chapel of Merevale Abbey (1148), contains some of the most important Cistercian stained glass in the British Isles, and includes the famous Jesse window. This book contains a description of the medieval and 19th-century glass, with over 120 pieces listed in the East window alone. There are chapters on how medieval stained glass was made and in iconography of Jesse windows. The colour plates of all the stained glass are from the RCHME.

Download or read book The American Guide to Britain written by Esmond Wright and published by Salem House Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "a detailed gazetteer and a 32 page atlas section" as well as numerous color photos.